To Japa or not to Japa: 9 myths of moving abroad

Dreaming about moving abroad? The idea of setting up a house in a faraway place captures the imagination. It sure did for us. That’s why we moved to Portugal. Now that we’re here, we get calls and emails all the…

I have a son but his mother said “he’s not yours”

Women are wicked I’ll say it again, women are wicked! Why am I so bitter, I was used, I was used by a woman to get at her ex-boyfriend. When I met Misan, she had just left a long time…

Are you planning to send your child to school abroad? You must read my niece’s story

I’m afraid for my niece; very afraid. She is home now…has been in the last nine months, too. Of course, it’s not my business to put my nose where it isn’t wanted. I mean, I protested the first time my…

I think my mother is sleeping with my father-in-law

What my mother does with herself is her business. She is old enough to take care of herself; at 68years old, she doesn’t need me to babysit her or even advice her, since her faculties are intact to the best…

I will be eating Indomie for Christmas because…

I told my parents I was going to school and indeed, I was at school…for a period even before Covid-19. I left school before the lockdown, at that time, I went to visit a friend of mine whose ex-boyfriend had…

My mum and I are enemies just like she was with her mum. Tell me, are we cursed?

I never met my grandma because my mother never let us; she never let us and she herself never even went to visit grandma nor was she on speaking terms with grandma, till the old woman died. I heard bits…

Wait o. It’s not every Nigerian man that wants to kill their wives in America

I saw the video circulating about one of us who killed his wife and later shot himself when the police came. It’s an old story; this thing happened about three years ago, if I am not mistaken. But even though…

Yaba “Bend Down” Market saved my life – Toni Kan

One day in February 1992, my father came to see me in school. I was in my first semester at the University of Jos. It was a cold morning. Jos was still shrugging off the harmattan. I dashed out of…

America is not flowing with milk and honey – Abiodun Kuforiji Nkwocha

He leaned close to me and stretched out his phone. I looked at it. It was a picture of a young man wearing only tight pants flexing huge biceps and flashing a smile. “My boy… the one wey dey Florida.”…

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